My men tell me that you are Orc spies.

Spies?! Now wait just a minute!

Well if you're not spies, then who are you? Speak.

We are hobbits of the Shire. Frodo Baggins is my name, and this is Samwise Gamgee.

Your bodyguard?

His gardener.

And where is your skulking friend? That gangrel creature. He had an ill-favoured look.

There was no other. We set out from Rivendell with seven companions. One we lost in Moria. Two were my kin. A Dwarf there was also, and an Elf. And two men, Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and Boromir of Gondor.

You're a friend of Boromir?

Yes. For my part.

It will grieve you then to learn that he is dead.

Dead? How? When?

As one of his companions, 'd hoped you would tell me. He was my brother.